Voices - Conversations on Business and Human Rights from Around the World

Climate action needs to happen fast. But it also needs to be participatory and fair. This is where the growing agenda around a ‘just’ transition to a zero-carbon future comes in. In this episode of Voices, IHRB CEO John Morrison speaks with Halina Ward, author of IHRB's latest report, about the ways that business and human rights good practice can strengthen implementation of just transitions. 

To mark the 25th year of the deaths of the Ogoni Nine - nine men who were executed by a brutal military regime in Nigeria in response to their activism against oil extraction in Ogoniland - IHRB presents a series of conversations about the significance of their struggle and impact of their leader Ken Saro Wiwa.  In this episode - The View from a Corporate - Salil Tripathi talks with Richard Boele,...

To mark the 25th year of the deaths of the Ogoni Nine - nine men who were executed by a brutal military regime in Nigeria in response to their activism against oil extraction in Ogoniland - IHRB presents a series of conversations about the significance of their struggle and impact of their leader Ken Saro Wiwa.  In this episode - The View from the Ground - Salil Tripathi talks with Ledum Mitee, wh...

To mark the 25th year of the deaths of the Ogoni Nine - nine men who were executed by a brutal military regime in Nigeria in response to their activism against oil extraction in Ogoniland - IHRB presents a series of conversations about the significance of their struggle and impact of their leader Ken Saro Wiwa. In this episode - The View from Beyond - Salil Tripathi speaks with Nnimmo Bassey, Raft...

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Current conservative estimates put the number of seafarers stranded on board ships between 300,000. COVID-19 restrictions have meant that many ports' ship operators are unwilling or unable to allow crew to come ashore, resulting in an ever-increasing numbers of crew overdue for relief but unable to be repatriated. In this episode, IHRB's Francesca Fairbairn speaks to Jacqueline Smith, Maritime Coo...

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In this Voices deep dive, former Member of the European Parliament and CEO of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), Richard Howitt speaks with IHRB’s John Morrison about his own experience battling an intense case of COVID-19 as well as his reflections on the track record and future of the business and human rights movement. Scanning the horizon, Howitt and Morrison share their pr...

Mary Lawlor teaches at the Centre for Social Innovation at the School of Business at Trinity College Dublin. She founded Front Line Defenders, the international foundation for the protection of human rights defenders in 2001, which has concentrated on supporting human rights defenders at risk. Front Line Defenders (with whom IHRB collaborated and published a joint report  on business and human rig...

In this conversation, Vani Saraswathi of Migrant-Rights.org tells IHRB's Salil Tripathi why companies should be actively engaged with the workers' conditions, even if they are not their direct employers, and why they should take the responsibility seriously. She calls for the pressing need for improved national labour protections for domestic workers in the Gulf and globally, because their risks h...

As the world comes to grips with the pandemic Covid-19, governments are acting in an uncoordinated manner and the international community is looking to companies to act responsibly. In this conversation with IHRB's Salil Tripathi, Antoine Bernard, who has headed the International Federation for Human Rights, known by its French acronym FIDH, and has examined the role of business with regard to hum...

President of the National Human Rights Council in Morocco, Amina Bouayach, speaks with IHRB's Salil Tripathi about the need for greater corporate accountability for human rights in Morocco.

Jason Ng is a corporate lawyer who worked at a leading international bank. A blog he wrote, critical of proposed Hong Kong extradition law, caught the eye of the authorities in Beijing, and the situation escalated, leading to Ng leaving the bank.

Social, political, and economic issues come into being, policies are translated into concrete actions, rights are vindicated at the local level. So how can the human rights framework empower all involved?

As buildings go “green” to reduce their climate impacts, how do you advance social equity and the priorities of local communities? Susan Kaplan of BuildingWrx discusses with IHRB's Annabel Short.

In this podcast, TWC2's Debbie Fordyce talks to IHRB's Francesca Fairbairn about how large recruitment fees paid by migrant workers for low paid jobs in Singapore can lead to excessive overtime that can undermine their health and safety.

In this podcast, Rohini Lakshané talks to IHRB's Salil Tripathi about state-ordered internet shutdowns in India - in particular in Jammu & Kashmir and Manipur, and of the adverse human rights impacts that result, particularly for women.

In this podcast, IHRB's Salil Tripathi talks to Mark Taylor, Froydis Cameron, Marcela Manubens and Pia Rudolfsson Goyer about the state of business & human rights, and what is now needed from business, government and the proposed BHR treaty.

In this podcast IHRB's Salil Tripathi talks to Scott Edwards about how human rights groups can use technology more effectively and why it is important to make tech companies understand and be accountable for their impacts.

In this podcast, Erik Hagen and Asria Mohamed of Western Sahara Resource Watch talk to IHRB's Salil Tripathi about foreign companies operating in Western Sahara and how they should seek consent of the Sahawari people themselves.

In this podcast, IHRB's Francesca Fairbairn talks to Deepika Rao about her experiences as a female marine engineer among almost exclusively male crew on board merchant oil tankers.

IHRB's Haley St Dennis speaks with Natalie Galea and Louise Chappell of the University of New South Wales, who are leading new research on dignity across the built environment lifecycle and the particular role of the Australian construction sector.

In this podcast, Abduweli Ayup talks to IHRB's Salil Tripathi about the Chinese government's use of facial recognition technology to surveil the Uygher population of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

In this podcast, Mohna Ansari talks to IHRB's Salil Tripathi about the major human rights issues in Nepal, and how companies must respect the environment and local indigenous culture when investing in the country.